MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivpujan mean?
The Sanskrit compound śivapūjana denotes adoration of Shiva. Pujan supplies the act of worship, making the name a direct devotional expression.
Pronunciation
IAST: śivapūjana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवपूजन
Letter-by-letter: śivapūjana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivpujan in Indian usage
23,855 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 172 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 23,683 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 741 |
| 1940s | 1,996 |
| 1950s | 3,082 |
| 1960s | 4,232 |
| 1970s | 4,723 |
| 1980s | 5,239 |
| 1990s | 3,712 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,001 |
| Bihar | 3,512 |
| Jharkhand | 617 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 584 |
| Other states | 141 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, śivapūjana, p. 1075,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.